1360
177
Memory Allocation
https://samwho.dev/memory-allocation/
3 years ago
842
424
Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple
https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/samestop/samestop.html
705
222
Meta AI announces Massive Multilingual Speech code, models for 1000+ languages
https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq/tree/main/examples/mms
664
520
Meta fined $1.3B over data transfers to U.S.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/meta-fined-1-3-billion-over-data-transfers-to-u-s-b53dbb04
556
299
Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption
https://www.wired.com/story/europe-break-encryption-leaked-document-csa-law/
517
392
Tell HN: Cancelling HP Instant Ink prevents cartridges from being used
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36030156
458
180
Modern work requires attention – constant alerts steal it
https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/05/22/modern-work-requires-attention-constant-alerts-steal-it/
412
135
The Open Buddhist University
https://buddhistuniversity.net/
394
Severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-05-22/News_and_notes
317
186
Malicious VSCode extensions with more than 45k installs
https://blog.checkpoint.com/securing-the-cloud/malicious-vscode-extensions-with-more-than-45k-downloads-steal-pii-and-enable-backdoors/
310
107
More than 600k students and teachers use Z-Library
https://torrentfreak.com/more-than-600000-students-and-teachers-use-z-library-230522/
289
70
Io uring
https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Io_uring
261
250
Apple is rewriting Foundation in Swift
https://github.com/apple/swift-foundation
254
241
Deep sleep may be the best defense against Alzheimer’s
https://www.wsj.com/articles/deep-sleep-may-be-the-best-defense-against-alzheimers-memory-amlyoid-1524dbd7
247
24
Polar Night
https://brr.fyi/posts/polar-night
231
122
Having a 20GB file that lets you ask an offline computer any question is amazing
https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/128tp9n/having_a_20_gig_file_that_you_can_ask_an_offline/
225
101
Ask HN: Is anyone hosting their own Jitsi server?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36032224
223
288
Black holes might be defects in spacetime
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-black-holes-defects-spacetime.html
230
Breakthrough deal to prevent Colorado River from drying up
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/22/colorado-river-states-california-arizona-nevada
200
142
What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)
https://www.mrdbourke.com/what-if-you-did-the-exact-opposite-like-the-rogue-bees-do/
199
26
Emacs Web Buttons
https://erkin.party/emacs/
191
65
€1.2B GDPR fine for Meta
https://noyb.eu/en/edpb-decision-facebooks-eu-us-data-transfers-stop-transfers-fine-and-repatriation
187
The many faces of DISTINCT in Postgres (2017)
https://hakibenita.com/the-many-faces-of-distinct-in-postgre-sql
150
UK’s GDPR replacement could wipe out oversight of live facial recognition
https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/19/dpib_2_surveillance_oversight/
184
163
iPhone maker Wistron quits, saying Apple didn't let it make a profit
https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/22/iphone-maker-wistron-quits/
183
138
Tokyo’s trash-collecting samurai takes a fun approach to cleanup
https://theworld.org/stories/2023-05-19/tokyo-s-trash-collecting-samurai-takes-fun-zany-approach-cleanup
179
45
CRDT Benchmarks
https://jsonjoy.com/blog/list-crdt-benchmarks
169
50
SR-71 pilot, photographer and storyteller Brian Shul dies at 75
https://newatlas.com/remarkable-people/brian-shul-death/
166
40
Show HN: Blotter – An interactive, never ending music video
https://www.twitch.tv/blotterstream
76
Growing Up Alyssa
https://rosenzweig.io/blog/growing-up-alyssa.html
162
Choosing a Name for Your Computer (1990)
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1178
160
75
The time I accidentally spent a year combatting fraud
https://www.brightball.com/articles/the-time-i-accidentally-ended-up-combating-fraud-for-a-year
154
64
Investigating the impact of HTTP3 on network latency for search
https://dropbox.tech/frontend/investigating-the-impact-of-http3-on-network-latency-for-search
143
A Chicago newspaper that bought a bar (2017)
https://www.topic.com/the-story-behind-the-chicago-newspaper-that-bought-a-bar
189
Ketamine no better than placebo at alleviating depression, unusual trial finds
https://www.science.org/content/article/ketamine-no-better-placebo-alleviating-depression-unusual-trial-finds
140
30
Salt Lake 2002 – not enough memory/crashes to desktop after starting error
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=86172
132
14
Pytrees
https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pytrees.html
129
22
Lem v2.0.0 – Common Lisp IDE with high expansibility
https://github.com/lem-project/lem
125
71
Ask HN: How to move from dev role to management/team lead role?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36028847
25
Show HN: Psychic - An open-source integration platform for unstructured data
https://github.com/psychic-api/psychic
111
39
Parallels in the ways that humans and ML models acquire language skills
https://www.quantamagazine.org/some-neural-networks-learn-language-like-humans-20230522/
109
59
RCE on MikroTik routers with IPv6 RA enabled
https://blog.mikrotik.com/security/cve-2023-32154.html
108
88
Intel Announces Aurora GenAI, ChatGPT Competitor with 1T Parameters
https://wccftech.com/intel-aurora-genai-chatgpt-competitor-generative-ai-model-with-1-trillion-parameters/
105
139
Meta preps new social app
https://liahaberman.substack.com/p/icymi-instagrams-new-app-could-be
Humanity's earliest recorded kiss occurred in Mesopotamia 4,500 years ago
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-humanity-earliest-mesopotamia-years.html
100
110
The Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movies of the 1970s
https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/most-underrated-sci-fi-movies-of-the-1970s/
95
233
Programming with natural language is going to work (2010)
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2010/11/programming-with-natural-language-is-actually-going-to-work/
94
98
Show HN: I made an iOS HN app to navigate large threads without getting lost
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hackernewt-for-hacker-news/id6448201970
93
172
Governance of Superintelligence
https://openai.com/blog/governance-of-superintelligence
92
106
Ask HN: Those with success using GPT-4 for programming – what are you doing?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36037559
90
42
Winamp Clone Whips the Llama's Ass on an Espressif ESP32
https://www.hackster.io/news/cheng-liang-s-lvgl-driven-winamp-clone-really-whips-the-llama-s-ass-on-an-espressif-esp32-2948716adcbb
82
Lawsuit accuses DoorDash of charging iPhone users more than others
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/lawsuit-accuses-doordash-of-charging-iphone-users-more-for-identical-orders/
87
Ask HN: Engineering managers, how do you onboard new hires?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36029409
81
13
Source code for Glider Pro (1994)
https://github.com/softdorothy/GliderPRO
80
55
Salvador Dalí is the most faked artist?
https://thehustle.co/why-salvador-dali-is-the-most-faked-artist-in-the-world/
29
Amazon employees plan to walk off the job as tech worker tension rises
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/22/tech-layoffs-amazon-walk-out-meta/
A temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius impacts billions
https://www.dw.com/en/how-a-temperature-rise-of-2-degrees-celsius-impacts-billions/a-65695800
73
11
Show HN: WikTok – A Recommendation UI for Wikipedia
https://wiktok.org/